Today the always excellent Cafe Hayek linked to a Village Voice piece by David Mamet in which he questions his liberal world view and realizes that this whole free-market thing might not be so bad after all.
Congratulations Mr. Mamet, welcome to the party.
I was a bit shocked to hear him call Thomas Sowell “our greatest living philosopher”. Thomas Sowell’s Basic Economics is the book that turned me into a nigh anarcho-capitalist, but it can be an uncomfortable read if you’re not ready to question the dissonance between the intentions of government policies and the actual results of those policies.
What I really liked about Mamet’s piece is that he seems to think that political views should be based on facts and observation and NOT what your friends think, or what your parents taught you, or what your emotions dictate. The former is science; the latter is religion.
